Have any of the serious experts on this board ever sorted out any 1960s images? I'm thinking of the Surveyor panoramas (in the 60s they did it with photos pasted onto the inside of half-spheres!) and the way that the exposure dropped off toward one corner, making a horrible patchwork effect. Or them lines and spots on the Lunar Orbiter images...

Most of the NASA mission data should be available as digital source material, and thus could be manipulated, though I suspect that getting anything 'real' from Soviet missions would be a bit of a chase!

Good additional info there. I'm pretty sure I've heard the bit on the Surveyor 1 descent camera both ways, so I'm not sure the real story.

There was a series of JPL technical reports on progress in developing flight missions and other research and development, put out regularly as a geekish collection of reports in a quasi magazine jumble. I don't recall the series name, but it ran from the early 60's to maybe 1968 or so (budget cuts progressively killed much of NASA's published documentation after that). It was not the JPL Technical Report TR-##-#### series, which published the Mariner 2, 4, 69, 71 Ranger 7-9, etc mission reports. There is an enormous amount of info on the project developments in those, particularly Surveyor and block 4+ Rangers (ones after Ranger 9, which never flew)... instrument development stuff, etc.

A lot of this stuff is archived in government depositories in university engineering or aerospace libraries, if they haven't been able to through this "obsolete junk" out yet.

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